Feb

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Archive for the ‘Obama & His Slow Joe’ Category

The president, down in Florida for vacation without his family, will spend the day golfing. The press, meanwhile, is on a “party bus,” according to the pool report:
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“Today, the President will be playing golf at the Floridian. We will release a list of those in the President’s foursome this afternoon. At this time, there are no public events scheduled or plans for the President to leave the grounds of the golf club. If those plans change, we’ll let you know promptly.”

After a Sunday AM new-show blitz and a Mon. eve. appearance with David Letterman, and with his Cap & Trade legislation stalled in Congress, getting more and more attention by folks terrified of huge tax increases for energy, and with his health care agenda being attacked by both right and left, what’s a good little Obamessiah to do? Why, go to the U.N. of course and overexpose himself some more. Lots more!

So, after deciding to become the first President of the United States to preside over a meeting of the UN Security Council on the 24th, proceeded by a couple of days hobnobbing with the diplomats in the General Assembly, what do ya think he would pick for his opening topic? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Nope. The resurgence of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban? Nope. The looming terror threat of 12 Al-Qaeda sleeper agents on the loose right now in the U.S. giving the F.B.I. and Secret Service fits? Nope. The timid economic recovery and increasing unemployment within the context of the interconnected world economy? Nope. Well, Okie — what the hell was it then?

Climate change.

Bwwhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You say. You got to be totally off your rocker. But wait — like Ginzu — there’s more. According to CBS News who quotes the Chosen One thus:

“It is true that for too many years, mankind has been slow to respond to or even recognize the magnitude of the climate threat. It is true of my own country as well,” Mr. Obama said at a climate change forum hosted by United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. “But this is a new day. It is a new era. And I am proud to say that the United States has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than at any other time in our history.”

Barack Obama’s call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source — U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro.

The former Cuban leader on Wednesday called the American president’s speech at the United Nations “brave” and said no other American head of state would have had the courage to make similar remarks.

Actually, no other American head of state would have had the courage temerity to make similar remarks. After that tour de force, on the same day, he decided to tackle Israeli/Palestinian peace: the lack of progress on this is making him . . . ah, cranky.

“It is past time to stop talking about starting negotiations; it is time to move forward,” Mr. Obama said Tuesday after meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly’s opening.

“Permanent status negotiations must begin and begin soon,” Mr. Obama said, flanked by Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas. “So my message to these two leaders is clear: despite all the obstacles, all the history, all the mistrust, we have to find a way forward.”

In his first address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama sought to set a new tone in U.S. relations, moving away from the unilateralism of his predecessor, George W. Bush. He coupled conciliatory words about a “new era of engagement” with a summons for other nations to shoulder more of the burden.

“Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone,” Obama said.

“Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton noted Obama’s extraordinary self-referentialism mixed with Wilsonian naivete and anti-Bush subtext, and joked that the president “did everything but break out and ask ‘Can’t we all just get along?’”

There was a momentary delay before blood-stained, jihadi-enabling thug Moammar Gadhafi took the podium. He’s babbling about “climate change” and waving around the U.N. charter. Praises “our son” from Africa, Barack Obama.

It’s a cum-bye-ya world, don’t ya know? If you ask reeeal nice, and put some purty-please with some suga on it, them bad ol’ boys around the globe will just stop all that killin’, all that nuclear-bomb makin’, all them wemen-desecratin’ activities, join hands and create a Utopia right here on this ol’ Earth.

And, he ain’t done yet! Tomorrow — he presides over the UN Security Council meeting where my bet is he’ll officially announce at least his intention to unilaterally disarm the U.S. nuclear arsenal. That should get him some applause, oh ya betcha!

Now that the Obama presidency is nearing the 60-day mark, it’s time to thank those fastidious scribes on the left and the right who worked so hard to warn us against Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, and the dire things that would surely occur if she ever got close to executive power.
How right they were to insist that she was unfit for high office. Let’s just imagine what she might have done:

As president, she might have caused the stock market to plunge over 2,000 points in the six weeks after she assumed office, left important posts in the Treasury unfilled for two months, been described by insiders as ‘overwhelmed’ by the office, and then gone on to diss the British Prime Minister on his first state visit, giving him, as one head of state to another, a set of DVDs plucked from the aisles of Wal Mart, a tasteful gift, even if they can’t be played on a TV in Britain. (Note, the Prime Minister, who is losing his eyesight, may even be blind in one eye).

As vice president, she might have told Katie Couric that when the stock market crashed in 1929, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on TV to reassure a terrified nation. Or on her first trip abroad as Secretary of State, she might have, as the AP reported, “raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe…when she mispronounced her “EU counterparts names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe’s,” then gave the Russian minister a gag “reset” button, on which the word “reset” was translated incorrectly.

What a good thing that Palin, whom Christopher Buckley called “an embarrassment, and a dangerous one,” wasn’t in office to cause such debacles, and that we have Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton instead.

Shoot — if nothin’ else, the roasts, beer and coffee served at the White House would be a lot better!

You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.

The Obama plan in a nutshell:

Raise your taxes

Raise your electric bill

Raise your gasoline bill

Raise your home heating bill

Raise your taxes, again

And, yet again for good measure

Why? Because The One knows better than you how you should spend your hard-earned money. And, because he wants a big ol’ bunch of it to give away to those that don’t pay income taxes.

So, all ye bitter gun and religion-clingin’ folk in small-town America, and all ye who deign to live outside the tenements of the inner cities or the skyscrapers of the elites — it’s time to elect a president that isn’t hell-bent on the destruction of America as we know it, who isn’t hell-bent on CHANGE for change’s sake, who doesn’t believe in Redistribution of Wealth, who doesn’t believe that an infant born alive in a botched abortion should be left to die as that was the original intent of the “mother”, time for one who doesn’t use thugs and thuggish acts to stifle contrary opinion.

It’s time to vote for John McCain.
Don’t get discouraged — it’s what they want.